BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
United Pies.1? Association —Copyright.
LONDON, October 22. Tho War Office proposes to try the experiment of a short service of two years with the colours, and ten years hi the reserve. The experiment will, a; present, be confined to seven battalions.
WASHINGTON, October 22
President Roosevelt, speaking at Atalanta, Florida, said that work on tho Panama Canal was sufficiently advanced to enable him to announce that it would certainly bo accomplished at probably less expanse than was anticipated Tho United States, he added, ouo-ht to police the Canal district. OTTAWA, October 22. Sir Wilfred Laurier has announced that ho does not intend to retire from politics until tho completion of the national transcontinental railway, in four or six years' time.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12635, 24 October 1905, Page 5
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